She is screaming, sobbing, choking, flailing. They hold her down on the cot, inject her with something as she protests.
"Delphine!" she shouts, but it's no use.
Her world shatters around her as she starts to feel woozy. Her eyes flutter in an attempt to stay awake, to hold on to the one thread of hope that's left.
She focuses on the voice in her mind.
"Keep breathing, keep breathing."
Soothing. Caring. Loving.
"Keep breathing, keep breathing."
Drifting. Falling. Darkness.
Cosima gets up immediately, walking over to Kira, her heart and head pounding. She sits on the edge of the bed, taking a deep breath.
"Kira," she says softly, "Can you tell me what happened?"
Kira shrugs, "I don't know. I was having a dream about you and then Delphine was there too."
"What kind of dream? Were you asleep?" Cosima asks.
Kira shakes her head. "I don't think so. You were feeling sad. I knew you were sad."
Cosima takes Kira's hand. "What happened in the dream?"
"I saw you in this room. It was really bright. You looked upset," Kira tells her.
"Was Delphine there?"
"Not at first. I couldn't really see what you were doing but it looked like there was someone lying down in front of you. When I looked closer, I saw her and she looked at me," Kira responds.
"She looked at you?" Cosima asks, stunned.
Kira nods.
"And she said something to you? What did she say?"
"She said she never left."
Cosima looks around the room at the silent, intense faces. "She never left?"
"She just kept saying that over and over. She never left, she never left," Kira explains.
Scott chimes in. "She never left. Maybe she was trying to tell you she never left you."
"But she wasn't talking to me, Scott. She was talking to Kira," Cosima reckons. "And why was she able to talk to Kira?"
"I don't know, Cos, but it seems like it's pretty important if that's what she chose to say," Sarah interjects, pacing the floor, her hand on her head.
"Well, if she's saying she never left, that means she's still in the same place she was before. But where was that? The last place she was?" Art ponders.
Cosima's eyes go wide. "The night I saw her at the camp. That's the last place. That's the memory she used to communicate with me. She never left. It doesn't make sense. We searched that camp top to bottom looking for her. She wasn't there."
"But maybe she means she never left the island. Cosima, she could still be there," Scott figures.
"What? How? The house is the only other structure on the island and that was searched too," Cosima remembers.
"Auntie Cosima?"
Cosima turns back to Kira. "Yeah?"
"I remembered something else. Right before the room went dark, she told me to find the swan."
"The swan?"
Kira nods.
"Wasn't the swan in that crazy Neolutionist book at the house?" Sarah asks.
"Yeah," Cosima answers, "but how will that help us?"
"I don't know, Cos," Sarah replies, "But I think we know where we have to start. We know what we've got to do now."
Cosima nods. "We have to go back to the island."
